Ghost Wall, by Sarah Moss. On Maureen Corrigan’s review, I began Ghost Wall, a story of a teenager and her family joining an academic “experimental archeology” field course in the North of England. Wikipedia describes Experimental Archeology as “a field of study which attempts to generate and test archaeological hypotheses, usually by replicating or approximating the feasibility of ancient cultures performing various tasks or feats…Living history and historical reenactment, which are generally undertaken as a hobby, are the non archaeological person’s version of this academic discipline.”

Ghost Wall = pre-historical re-enactors (with a right-wing nationalist cast) +  2nd rate academic with lacky grad students + teen girl coming of age.

As the story unfolds, the protagonist’s father shows himself to be as brutal as the prehistoric Brits he emulates, and the protagonist, who loves her father, has to come to grips with what that brutality means to her.